Meanings
- not comparableNot abstinent; not practicing abstinence.
Also of interest, nearly half of the total studies reporting successful nonabstinent outcomes were conducted outside the United States.
2012, Mark B. Sobell, “Alternatives to Abstinence: Evidence, Issues and Some Problems”, in Peter E. Nathan, G. Alan Marlatt, editor, Alcoholism: New Directions in Behavioral Research and Treatment, page 1792 more examples
A second point of interest is that although successful nonabstinent outcomes have repeatedly been referred to as rare occurrences, a review of the literature presents a different picture.
2012, Kirk R. Blankstein, Janet Polivy, Self-Control and Self-Modification of Emotional BehaviorFurthermore, abstinent cocaine users showed greater fronto-central late LPPs to cocaine picturres that the other two groups, whereas the nonabstinent cocaine users exhibited lower LPPs to positive and negative pictures than abstient users and controls.
2016, Jennifer L. Stewart, April C. May, “Electrophysiology for addiction medicine: From methodology to conceptualization of reward deficits”, in Neuroscience for Addiction Medicine, page 78
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